THIS IS WHAT ROOT MEANS (stop asking)

[MountainX]

the IMEI is read-only, so no. you can find where the IMEI is stored and reprogram the chip possibly, but this would require unsoldering the chip from the board I think. This is not done in software or stored as a string in flash memory.

well, if that's so, how is a large block of the population in India getting their IMEI number changed?

[fezdlc]

Can someone upload a youtube video on how to root the droid? I think this would really help visual learner people like myself

[buci1er]

i have a ? about rooting the droid.

Once the droid is rooted..can it ever be undone?

[DroidSickness]

Hate to ask and sound not smart and expert at rooting. But again can someone post the real potential of what can be done with a rooted Driod with examples thanks.

[bobmundo123]

ok.. so rooting allows you to modify and alter and have control to many settings.. However.. Will you still get like.. updates.. to like apps.. and lets say i root 2.0.1... and then the update for 2.1 comes out for the droid... will i be alerted and notified for the update like i was for the 2.0.1..?

[catfishk]

Let me just jump ahead of myself here and ask a question - after rooting the Droid would one be, hypothetically, able to unlock the device from its original carrier or perhaps change the IMEI#?

i have my Droid on Cricket Wireless. having root has nothing to do with it, since only the PRL needs to be changed (CDMA settings are "beneath" the Android software entirely) and the ESN registered with the carrier

I really like having US Cellular, since it works really well where I live and in most places where my friends' phones don't work and/or roaming. I don't think that USCC will have this phone anytime soon, it takes them close to one year to get a new phone... so my options would be to switch to Verizon, unlock Droid from Verizon, or change the IMEI to my current phone (changing IMEI is illegal, blah blah, blah). I really do not want to use the first option... so to get back to my original question - after rooting is it possible to unlock or change the IMEI number? Thanks in advance.

the IMEI is tied to the device. however, i own the device so i can put it on whatever network allows me. while unlawful to change the device's hardware address, taking the Verizon stuff out and changing networks is NOT unlawful and totally possible

note that you will probably *not* get CDMA data working at this time, however, on another network. there is a lot of Verizon settings that revert on reboot or after NVRAM edits

[hondaguy520]

after rooting the droid everything still works the same..updates? and everything? just allows you more access??

[technowizpvtltd]

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[blueyzfr6]

ok.. so rooting allows you to modify and alter and have control to many settings.. However.. Will you still get like.. updates.. to like apps.. and lets say i root 2.0.1... and then the update for 2.1 comes out for the droid... will i be alerted and notified for the update like i was for the 2.0.1..?

What settings can you alter??? I just rooted it and everything seems the same but I have a ninja/Superuser Permissions

[HolyGrail]

ok.. so rooting allows you to modify and alter and have control to many settings.. However.. Will you still get like.. updates.. to like apps.. and lets say i root 2.0.1... and then the update for 2.1 comes out for the droid... will i be alerted and notified for the update like i was for the 2.0.1..?

I would like to know this too.